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NAS Applications for Demanding Environments
This document provides a review of Network Attached Storage (NAS) applications, and discusses the features which should be considered when specifying a NAS requirement.

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Cooling of Rugged Electronics and Cooling Techniques
This document describes cooling requirements of rugged electronic enclosures. It is intended to raise awareness of some thermal design aspects of installing electronics enclosures (LRUs) into a system.

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Screen Recording
This document describes different mechanisms available for recording the images that an operator on a rugged system sees on their computer screen. The options are compared to emphasize the types of application and end-user requirements where each method might be most suited.

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Secure Erase vs Encryption
This document describes the methods of Secure Erase and Encryption for securing and/or permanently deleting data in sensitive applications. The most important benefits and concerns with the two methods are discussed.

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Solid State Storage in Military and Aerospace Applications
This document describes the different types of Solid State Storage available on the market today. The types are evaluated from a technical and commercial standpoint with respect to the relevance for their use in military and aerospace applications.

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Ethernet Connections 8-Wire vs 4 Wire
This document describes how to connect Ethernet 4-wire and 8-wire connections to Galleon Equipment. Inside the ethernet cable, there are 8 color-coded wires. These wires are twisted into 4 pairs of wires, for a Gigabit Ethernet connection and 2 pairs of wires for 10/100 Ethernet connections.

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SOSA and VITA: Working together for Next-Gen Defense Systems
The emerging SOSA hardware standard draws primarily from OpenVPX and other related VITA standards. The new technologies, topologies and environmental requirements critical to meeting SOSA objectives must be supported by extensions to these VITA standards. This paper is an overview of the SOSA and VITA organizations and how they interact, along with the challenges, successful strategies, and illustrative examples.

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